Freetown
Soaring sexual violence pushes S.Leone to face 'rape culture'
Thousands of children and young girls were raped last year in Sierra Leone - a silent epidemic of suffering in one of the world's poorest countries.
The first ladies of Liberia, Niger, Ghana, Chad and Gambia gave their backing to the initiative.
The lawsuit, brought in federal court in Philadelphia, accuses Moses Thomas of directing the mass killing on 29 July, 1990, while a colonel in the Armed Forces of Liberia.
After years of cyclical cholera outbreaks in West Africa, the cholera response is getting better.